Not sure if this should be in hard ware or not. I have a 16gb sandisk sd micro and a usb adaptor. I installed Thunderbird portable on it,...
Well, at least we know what's gonna happen now. Thanks for all the help. Be back later. Mark
WD Caviar SE # WCAM 99741349
Drivers were already loaded for SATA. Didn't need to change them since IU wasn't setting up RAID.
Nope, It's a SATA drive and I've already tried it both connectors. Sparky doesn't have on board SATA so I can't try it there. I guess I gotta...
Bummer, I switched out the ram and it's doing the same thing. It examines configuration, then starts examining the hard drive. And stays there....
Been there ,done that. I've had static woes before. I'll have to try the ram a little later. I need the computer now. Mark
Dang, this 2Gig memory is only about 6 months old, but I did get a "really" good deal. I may have gotten what I paid for. I'll try with the 512...
Well, it's not that chkdsk won't complete, I can't get far enough along to start it. The system hangs before it gets that far.
I forgot to mention, I removed everything unnecessary while trying to diagnose this. So the sound card isn't the culprit.
Sorry for the delay, The test completed without any errors. I need to find out how to run CHKDSK or similar program without booting Windows
I'll do that and be right back. But I have the feeling it's not a hardware problem. Thanks
I had a sound card problem. I changed the card, after that Windows never booted again. It gets as far as the progress bar and sticks. Safe mode...
Thanks again Steve, The power supply was the problem.
Thanks Steve, I'm going to pull the power supply from 'Ol Sparky and try it her machine. I'll post back in a little while
Nope. It's the wifes machine. One day it didn't want wake up from standby. I shut it down and it has never started since.
I have an Intel desktop board #D845GRG with a corrupt bios. When I push the power button, I get LEDs, power supply, CPU, and case fans, but...
Here's the fix I ask the same question at bleepingcomputer.com. I was told to format a drive in fat32, then use "PClinuxOS" to copy the files to...
Arie, Those are the instructions I used to gain ownership and the files are not encrypted. At least I didn't encrypt them. keithsince59,...
Hi all, I had a bad experience upgrading to Windows Vista. Everything went fine untill time to start it for the first time. It booted normally,...
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